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BATTLE FOR WORLD SUPREMACY. Bulls and Inners
UL From the Office Butts. ៗ គ្ន
"Hongkong Dollar Stationary,” Judging from recent corros- Oure isn't: it's pondence, it would appear that Hongkong's terpsichorians Inspired the song "Dancing With Tears In My Eyesl"
Anya
Ominous Warning in Sensational Trotsky Article. QUEBEC REBUFF Bonding.
CAPITALISM COMING TO
GRIPS WITH COMMUNISM.
ISSUE TO BE FOUGHT OUT
ON GERMAN SOIL.
"WAR INEVITABLE.”
The bitter
THE FATE OF THE WORLD will be decided
in the next few months. struggle waged by the Soviet for Communist domination in world affairs is now reaching its Testky, who predicts that the battle for world supremacy will be
The final battle will be fought on, climax. German soil and Herr Hitler, the leader of the Nazis holds the key.
Thus M. Leon Trotsky, famous co-partner of Lenin in the early days of the Russian Revolution and now discredited in his own country, in the course of a re- markable article appearing in last evening's London Evening Standard.
The Soviet Government is throwing all its resources into the battle in Germany, according to M. Trotsky,| seeking to take advantage of the strain upon Germany's people in resisting financial and economic chaos and the heavy sacrifices forced upon them by the stringent emergency decrees, by which the whole country has been placed under martial law in an economic sense.
for world than Nothing less
21 gigantic struggle supremacy, between the Capitalistic and the Communist system is the immediate prospect, says the banished Chief of the Red Army, in the course of his amazing article, which was telegraphed to the Evening Standard yesterday by the journal's Berlin correspondent.
M. Trotsky is at present in Germany, taking the "cure" al various spus after serious illnesses during his exile in Turkey.
CRUEL, DESPERATE AND MERCILESS
The fight, he says, will be cruel and merciless and desperate. The fate of the world will be the issue,
ff Capitalism wins through the Fascist movement Germany, Bolshevism will be wiped out and the Soviet will fall.
But if Hitler fails, Ger- many will be the platform from which world revolution will start a triumphant march to the ends of the earth.
A victory for Hitler, in would inevitably cast, any mean war against the Soviet.
A Fascist Government in Germany would alone be able to venture war against the Soviet, but it would find itself presenting Russia with a united front with Poland, Rumania, the Baltic States and Japan. RESULT OF DUEL CLEAR.
in
Herr Hitler, hailed by Trotsky na the bulwark of expitalism.
"The result of such a duel is clear. It would mean. terrible isolation and a death struggle for the Soviet under the most difficult conditions."
The Red Army in Moscow should be mobilised against Germany as an act of self-defence should the Fascists attain power. Reuter
JAPANESE PARTY| JAPAN GIVES AN
WIPED OUT.
ALL KILLED BY “BANDITS."
Tokyo, Jan. 18. Another contingent of Japanese troops has been annihilated in collision with "bandita" according
ASSURANCE..
REPLY TO BRITISH REQUEST.
decided in the next few monthst
WINTER SPORTS
EXPERTS GETTING IT HOT.
AN OLYMPIC FIASCO.
ONLY THE LAKE PLACID.
of
WORLD FINANCE,
Yellow Metal Peril.
Britain on World's Remedy.
TO AMERICA.
ST. LAWRENCE
PARTNERSHIP.
always going.
口口
It was very nice to nee locally- grown vegetables at the Agricul- tural Show. What we most need in the chance to eat some,
ᄆᄆ
of
A taxi-driver complains damage done to his vehicle by Might be described
NATIONAL CRIME.assengers.
Quebec, Jan. 15. The long-cherished plans for the development of the St. Lawrence River, to be undertaken jointly by the United States and Canada, have received a setback by a nogative vote in the Quebec Provincial Legislature.
The scheme involved the pro- vision of hydro-electric power at several points in addition to dredging and widening for the purpose of giving ocean-going vessels necess to the Great Lakes.
A fare wear and tear!
O O
An astronomer has just counted 134 shooting stars. The recordi in, however, belleved
held to be
| by a Hongkong man who recently failed to dodge a flower-pot which tell from a verandah.
Kowloon
. ឆ
A Monetary Afterthought!- Why not persuado Hongkong's "gold diggers" to study
this stabilisation question?
白口
This Week's Wolleriam:-"Well
I'll be hanged," as the convicted murderer sald after receiving judgment.
Those
២ ជ
firemen who secreted money in their boots during the Yaumati blaze may have been merely trying to Ket # good financial standing.
JO
We heur Aberdonian who complains that A doctor recently asserted that he won't be able to enjoy imme, colds should be permitted to con- diute benefit from the reduction tinue their course, as they microly in tabuces prices because he has remove polson from the system. still a number of Christmas elgars Sub people we dough bust be parti.
cularly polsodous!
៨ .
left!
~ ~
Pippura Negotiation have been going shouldn't jump conclusions jon for some years past and the to
because Federal Governments, it is under- just stood, have both given the scheme it's Leap Year. their whole-hearted support.
Legislature
The
Quebec
todiny voled
04 Votes against the proposal.
Vigorous Attack.
OO
The most tha!
to some of thes
Fanling golfers do is to disturb the territorini integrity of the mainland.
The vatlag was the result of a vigorous attack by the Premier of Quebec, Mr. Taschereau, who stated that "t would
0 be national crime to develop the
☐ ☐ Cat hunting
04
St. Lawrence power project within now euld to be the popular the Americans. FROZEN CREDITS.
"Canada," he added. "should pastime among partner of the the young London, Jan. 15. not become
United Status by sharing blooda of the Suggestions in the press as to the possible postponement of Canada's water and power deve Cololly
lopments on Canada's heritage the Lausanne Conference on re- for the benefit of American indus
Ser- parations until after the French tries."-Renter's American parliamentary and German pre-, vice, sidential elections, have drawn an authoritative statement that
Government the British proceeding with their plans on con- the assumption that the forene will start on January 24th.
(Reutar's Special Service).
New York, Jan. 15.
the An upward turn of thermometer threatens com. plete fiasco on the occasion Winter Olympic the Games which are due to be held at Lake Placid and in the Adirondacks from Febur- ary 4 to Feburary 13. America hay speat half million dollars in preparation for Berlin
Negollations"
praceeding between German
are
in
l
STRINGENT AIR REGULATIONS.
SAFETY FIRST THE ORDER.
Judge: Guilty or not guilty! Prisoner: Not guilty, sir,
Judge: Ever, been arrested before!
Prianner: No, sir. stole before.
Judging from what we see at some of these club bars, lots of men who are not really hard-up lend a hand-to-mouth existence.
៨ ០
The statistician who has figured out that one
in person
five mwadays can drive a car probably metuis une chauffeur in five.
wiver.
Sailors don't regard the reduction in
the prices of tabacco
28
"Navy Cut!"
ឆ ជ
11
A Calcutta
writer
Mays
the Mahatma
really
has
裁
Hweat nature,
to those who know him. Sugar-Gandhi?
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A well-known athlete in said to train on champagne. Fizzical Jerkat:
Young man beware! Tia Leap Year now,
Be careful of your netions. Avoid each soare,
Be careful how
You yield to all attractions. Watch overy alep,-
The paths that please
May have their hidden dangers. Subdue your pep,
Your Q's and P's
Protect against all strangers. Each bonnet scour With eagle glance; Each body,
though attractive, At forty miles an hour Perchance,
Will leave you quite inactive. So don't forget this warning
true,
And o'er the street don't waddle; But leap naide, or maybe you Will fall for this year's model!
the event and every cent seems foreign bankers concerning Ger-
Lots of girls think all they need "frozen" £350,000,000 likely to be wasted. Starters, many's
to do before marriage is to train ski-ers, ice hockey experts anti worth of short-term credits which
re-themselves to be good wives for Stringent and sweeping curlers representing seventeen tull due on February 29, are near-
gulations in regard to aerial men who can afford to live in nations are now assembling in the ing a conclusion.
navigation in Hongkong First Instalments.
are hotely.
□ □ Adirondacks for the contexts.
And what a picture!
It has been agreed that the first contained in the current issue
Government Gazette, A Hongkong purist thinks it's Lake Placid has lived up to its instalment of the portion to be of the
fewer than time We eliminated stereotyped name. Its waters are as calm as repid in the next twelve months which devotes no
phrases from letters. Let's hope a mirror. The ice is missing. shall be paid on September 1. forty pages to the subject.
There is a beautiful ski-jump, but It is also taken for granted that Requirements in regard to air that "Please remit" will be the
first to go. snow in conspicuous by its absence, the period of renewal of the worthiness of machines are set out, The bobsleigh run, which was present standstiil agreement. together with the equipment they
She was only a plano-tuner's at
A scientist claims to have dis- of governing the remainder of the Cost constructed G$200,000, is now more like a
credits, shall be for a year, but must carry, while lengthy rules are watercourse as the result of the reveral weighty questions still given regarding the qualifications covered a substance like rubber, daughter, but she was upright, with
of personnel.
only much more durable. Sounds weil-turned legs. unprecedented thaw which has require a solution.
Regarding British machines, it like a cold fried oyster.. overtaken the North American One of them is the provision of is laid down that any such craft continent. Nalens the tempera- additional security, on which the gying on a regular scheduled sor- ture drops soon and quickly, the American bankers insist, and vice and any craft of the Hongkong whole games will be a complete another is the problem of a reduc- failure.
tion in the interest rate..
fritain's Pien.
SILVER FALLS ON
£ RISE.
HONGKONG MARKET
|
STEADY.
3 0
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口
.
"Angry Japanese Fire News- Some people know exactly what's paper Office" were are told. Per- Flying Club shall not fly unless it wrong with Hongkong.
Others laps it was only a "rag!" has within 24 hours of the com-just mind their own business.
O D mencement of the light been in- sufe for
l'arliament now seems to consist A message from Geneva says that spected, and certified as n appeal to the great gold-holding fight.
If the Shan States don't come of the National and the Gnashional countries to take "appropriate ac Details are also given of points into the new Burma regime.
we parties. tion" to restore price levels to be covered in log-looks, while presume they'll be known as the throughout the world, is made in stringent regulations are given for "Shan't States." the course of a statement-memo the medical examination of pilots, randum drawn up by the British ground englazers na operating Government and circulated to all
The most extraordinary thing members of the Committee dealing The issue of the regulations about "the most extraordinary book The improvement in the sterling with the projected European Cus-heralds the fact that the ambitious of the year is that it is published cross-rate, which has risen to
toms Union.
aerodrome scheme at Kai Tack is under so many different titles. 2.48%, followed by a drop in sile¦
The statement opposer waterprctically completed. The hangars ver, is reflected in the Hongkong
tight Customs Unions, and ex-
are ready for occupation and the dollar, which declined 1/8th this
presses the opinion that the heavy i serodrome lay-out is in the morning, the demand rate being contraction in the volume of foreign stages of preparedness. 18. 5.5.1/16d.
credits may be attributed to the unprecedented fall in price levels and that the only remedy for the
In London, silver was down 5/16ths spot and a farthing for ward. China bought and sold and Amerien was a small seller. there being poor support at the opening. After the official fixing, however, In reply to the British request. the market ruled steadier, with made in preference to invoking of America Inclined to buy. the Nine-Power Treaty as has
London. Jan. 15,
crew.
final
Hypnotic dentistry is promised. We expect the dentist will tell the patient his fee and pull the tooth before he recovers.
☐ ☐
Of course. If our harbour silts ☐ ☐
up, there will be no need of a as we could all walk A Wellerism we may yet hear. bridge. "Cheero" as the members of the across. Naval and Military Y.M.C.A. said as they took their leave of the "Chiang Stira", says a headline.
More agitation in a teacup
. .
present state of affairs lies in the AMERICAN CREDIT City Hall.
hands of the countries which have! accumulated abnormal stocks of Kold,
Italian Experts. The Italian financial experts, l'ro- The quotation in New York re-fessor Boneduce and Signor Buti, who reached London last night, been done by the United States. mains unchanged,
the Japanese Ambassador in Lon- The local market is somewhat after conversations in Paris with to a message from Chinchow. don has conveyed express assur stendly, but no-one is disposed to the French financial authorities.
A party of thirty-two transportjances in reference to Japan's do any business. soldiers, who were returning to disclaimer of territorial ambitions!
CORPORATION.
HOOVER PROPOSAL
APPROVED.
Washington, Jan, 15,
We have not heard much about the Sawdust Club recently. We u derstand, however, that the pewter pots are not linely to turn rusty!
☐ ☐
M. Rollin is the now Minister of Commerce in France. He ought to be good at Alling the provor bial stocking.
☐ ☐
tourist who was trying to pro nounce the name.
A man dived into the river threa times to recover two half-crowns he It is understood that the sarth The House of Representatives had dropped. It is rumoured that tremor at Pwllhell, in North were received at the Treasury to-
and later were en-to-day passed the Finance Cor-ho is to receive freedom of Aber Wales, was caused by an English tortained at luncheon by the poration Reconstruction Bill and doon. Chinchow from Chinsi were in Manchuria and her intention to His Excellency the Governor Chancellor of Exchequer, Mr. the Corporation will now begla to reported missing yesterday.
reapect the principles of the has nominated the following sa Mem
function.
"Wall-stroot brokers would nover It is now known that the whole Opon Door and the Nine-Power a nomadust of the University Neville Chamberlalu.
The party also included the It is expected that activity will party was wiped out as a result Tronty.--Reuter.
of Hongkong for a further period of
week as consent to wear top-hats like the of an attack by three hundred
three years, with effect from the fat Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, bo possible within a
all preliminary arrango- members of our Stock Exchange." bandits who sat an ambuscade for consequently there is no trace of January Mr. H. B. La Dowbiggin, and Signor Hamell, the Italian nearly the small force near Chinal. The the remains of the Japanese 0.3.E., Mr. M. P. Talati, and Mr. J. Charge D'Affaires In Londonments have been completed Crash helmets would be more, ap
propriate. Reuter's Americau Serviço. Neuter and British Wirelons. bandits burned the bodies and troops.--Router.
R. Wood, M.A.
Slight Drop in Silver-just n. an ocean of difference. few small drops, but they make